CHURCH OF ST MARY
CHURCH OF ST MARY
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1087758
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1957
- List Entry Name:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1087758
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1957
- List Entry Name:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Cuthbert Without
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 43525 48921
Details
ST CUTHBERT WITHOUT WREAY
NY 44 NW
11/30 Church of St Mary
1. 4.57
II*
Church. 184O-42 by Sarah Losh, with sculptural stonework by William Hindson,
erected by estate workers at her own expense. Dressed sandstone walls, stone-
slate roof. 4 bay nave with semicircular apse. Romanesque style showing both
French and Italian influence. Nave has 4 round-headed windows to each side,
with triple clerestory windows above. 2 gargoyles to each side representing
reptiles. Apse has recessed and round-headed niches with clerestory arcading
above. West gable entrance has round-headed arch decorated with roll-moulding
of formalised water-lilies and pine-cone motifs. 3 round-headed windows over
entrance with rising arcade of small windows above, surmounted by stone bellcote
with carved stone eagle. Down steps to right of entrance, is a small
stone-enclosed well. Interior on 3 levels, sunken body, steps up to apse. Apse
is surrounded by arcade of 14 columns with carved capitals. Ceiling of pine
panels and trusses of oak, floor of sandstone slabs. Seating of oak and Spanish
chestnut, other chairs and pulpit of carved local bog oak and ebony: lecturns
of carved chestnut representing eagle and pelican on bog oak stands: pulpit of
carved bog oak. Font of varved alabaster by Sarah Losh and W.S. Losh: altar of
green Italian marble on brass eagles. Non-figurative stained glass partly of
re-used glass from Archbishop's Palace, Paris. Carved wooden archangles on
either side of chancel arch. Carved wood and other details by local craftsmen.
Built close, or on site of, medieval church which was totally demolished on
rebiJilding, except for font (now in churchyard, listed separately), re-used
corbel stone above entrance to boiler house, and some re-used timber. See,
Pevsner, Buildings of England, Cumberland & Westmorland, p. 212; Country Life,
4 November, 1971 p. 123O-31.
Listing NGR: NY4352548921
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 77610
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cumberland and Westmorland, (1967), 212
'Country Life' in 4 November, (1971), 1230-31
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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